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USAF record 28987216

28987216

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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE 7 Jun 60

2. LOCATION Champaign, Illinois

3. DATE-TIME GROUP Local GMT 07/20552

4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual

5. PHOTOS Q Yes O No

6. SOURCE Civilian

7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION n/a

8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS one

9. COURSE not given

10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING Film strip forwarded to ATIC which showed an unidentified object on several frames. Source was filming a silhouette of a statue and the object was not seen until the film was being previewed. See: Film 7-3745-448 (Photo on opposite Specimen File)

11. COMMENTS Upon analysis by ATIC it was determined that the object was a light source of considerable intensity which moved thru the camera's field of view in 1 1/4 sec The extremely high velocity and brightness indicates that the object was probably a meteor or the "fireball" class.

STAMP: ATIC FORM 329 (REV 26 SEP 93)

12. CONCLUSIONS Was Balloon [REDACTED] Possibly Balloon [REDACTED] Possibly Balloon [REDACTED] Was Aircraft [REDACTED] Possibly Aircraft [REDACTED] Possibly Aircraft [REDACTED] Was Astronomical Meteor [REDACTED] Probably Astronomical Meteor [REDACTED] Probably Astronomical Meteor [REDACTED]

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